"Seeds, Ceramics, and City Streets: Community Co-Curation in the Native Truths Exhibition at The Field Museum"
Dr. Eli Suzukovich III (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree/Krajina Serb)
Northwestern University and the Negaunee Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum of Natural History
Friday November 22, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Stevens Building 173
Dr. Suzukovich III is an anthropologist with a focus on cultural resource management, ethnography, religion, oral history, and ethnobiology. Through his academic and professional careers, Dr. Suzukovich's work has included community level research, archival collections research and management, applied ethnography, forensic research, and community-based research.
His talk will focus on the community co-curation with the Meskwaki Nation of Iowa, the Iowa Tribe of Kanas/Nebraska, and the Chicago Urban Indian Community during the development of the Native Truths: Our Voices/Our Stories exhibition at the Field Museum. This topic is in advance of the exhibition catalogue publication, The Future is Indigenous: Stories from the New Native North America Hall at the Field Museum, by Alaka Wali and Tom Skwerski, and will focus on the development of three of the exhibits in the hall and what was learned from the experience.
Following the talk will be a Q&A and chance to chat informally with Dr. Suzukovich.
